Abbreviations

AI: Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays

CSK: Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps

DAA: Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

EJ: Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

GG: Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

IAM: Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

JP: Hannah Arendt, The Jew as Pariah

LOTM: Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

OP: Mary McCarthy, Occasional Prose

OPS: Susan Sontag, On Photography

OR: Hannah Arendt, On Revolution

OT: Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism: Part Three of “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

OTC: Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary: Articles of Belief, 1946–1961

OV: Hannah Arendt, On Violence

PHA: The Portable Hannah Arendt

R: Diane Arbus, Revelations

RJ: Hannah Arendt, Responsibility and Judgment

SOF: Mary McCarthy, Stones of Florence

SRW: Susan Sontag, Styles of Radical Will

STB: Joan Didion, Slouching towards Bethlehem

SWR: The Simone Weil Reader

WA: Joan Didion, The White Album

YMT: Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking